Well, among others, I've run on pure Debian Jessie, and a great deal more. I haven't had an issue installing stable versions of Lc back to 6.0.1 on any of them, whether they were deb or rpm based, but I do know others do, like our friend recently who had issues on Fedora 25.

I'll have to do an install of Jessie fresh tonight and try to recreate this issue.

7. ran the interactive tutorial
- I found the list on the left to be interesting, however the tutorial found it less amusing when I used it to set the mouseUp event.

8. having finished the tutorial with no other issues, I chose file/new stack/default size
- added a label, field, and 2 buttons
- set names for a little fancier 'hello' program
- no issues seen

*in addition to the default repositories, I enabled contrib and non-free in the sources list
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In this case, I installed only for myself, however I don't know that it would have made any difference going for all users.

For the issues described by berserk, I can only think of a few problems aside from what Max pointed out, but would need testing from the command line to determine it for sure. Sometimes programs that are partially running as he describes the problem can be determined starting it from the cli, by seeing what it reports failing.

Otherwise, try Max's launcher, as that will almost certainly pick off things you might be missing. As far as a pure fresh Debian installation, though, I see no issue.

Experimenting with other distros, I did find that LMDE2 (Linux Mint Debian Edition2, which uses the Mate environment from wheezy) does have some issues with displaying Lc properly, at least with earlier versions, like 6.0.1. It seems there are pixbuf errors in the mint themes, and those versions have problems finding engines in various other themes.

The biggest error 8.1.6 displayed, however, was hardly an event ender. As shown below, there was a call to a deprecated function, and an incorrect rgb profile. Neither would have prevented text from being used.

I took the time to also download the latest debian jessie/Mate installer, will see if I can reproduce the issue with that since it is possible the other way I installed it may have installed libraries not used by a straight up Mate install.

Hmm. I could have sworn I submitted a post about the latest live Debian/Jessie/Mate attempt I did earlier today, but I don't see it anymore

Anyway, to make my longer post short and sweet, I downloaded and ran the live cd 64 bit version of the above, and instead of installing it, proceeded to download and install Lc 8.1.6 directly from the live environment.

The install went smoothly with no issues either following the interactive tutorial, or creating a hello world program with several widgets attached for ha ha's, so I am unsure why our friend berserk had such issues.

Nothing aside from the errors above showed up when running it from the command line, and no updates or upgrades were performed before running it.

And if you fast enough you can add it to the launch bar as icon (Try it and you see what i mean )
oOn Kubuntu i was not able to implement in my Favorites,(Never the less i guess thats my fault and i spend not to much time here)
however i put an link on my Ubuntu Desktop and it work.